Cloud Bigtable documentation

Cloud Bigtable documentation

Overview

Training and tutorials

Use cases

Code samples

Videos

Cloud Bigtable is Google's fully managed NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Not sure what database option is right for you? Learn more about our database services.

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Guides

• Quickstarts: cbt command-line tool or HBase Shell

• Designing your schema

• Schema design for time series data

• Understanding performance

• Importing and exporting data

• Managing tables

• Overview of replication

• Managing backups

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Reference

• cbt tool reference

• cbt tool overview

• Client libraries

• Dataflow Connector

• Apache Beam + Bigtable Connector overview

• Service APIs overview

• Status codes

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Resources

• Pricing

• Quotas & limits

• Release notes

• Integrations with Bigtable

• Getting support

• Media: articles, videos, and podcasts

• Bigtable locations

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Training and tutorials

Try Bigtable tutorials, training courses, and Qwiklabs from Google Cloud.

Codelab

Introduction to Bigtable (Java)

Work through a codelab that teaches you how to avoid common schema design mistakes, import data, read your data, and then use it to generate a heatmap that shows New York City bus data.

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Tutorial

Capturing Bigtable tracing and metrics

Implement client-side tracing and metrics recording in your workloads by using OpenCensus and Google Cloud's operations suite.

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Tutorial

Using Bigtable with Cloud Functions

Learn how to how to send a Bigtable read request using a Cloud Functions HTTP(S) request.

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Tutorial

Running JanusGraph with Bigtable

Store and query graph data with Bigtable and JanusGraph.

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Use cases

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

Bigtable for Cassandra users

Learn the differences between Bigtable and Apache Cassandra.

Migration Cassandra Apache

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Use case

Migrate data from HBase

Migrate data from an Apache HBase cluster to a Bigtable cluster.

Migration Apache HBase

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Use case

Use Bigtable in a Cloud Dataflow pipeline

The Cloud Dataflow connector for Bigtable is useful for both batch and streaming operations.

Dataflow streaming batch

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Code samples

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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Java hello world

Create a hello world application using the client library for Java.

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Go hello world

Try a hello world example written in Go.

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C# hello world

Get started with .NET on Bigtable.

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Videos